More Mosher Books

Here are the latest editions to my collection of books published by Thomas B. Mosher of Portland, Maine.

The House of Usna, by Fiona MacLeod, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1903.
Fiona MacLeod's drama follows the lines established by the ancient Greek tragic dramatists, a play suffused with doom and inescapable Fate. A post Octavo, part of the Miscellaneous Series, one of 450 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper with vellum wraps with green floral decorations in the Celtic motif.

Astrophel and Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1905.
Sir Philip Sidney was the poetic bridge between Chaucer and Shakespeare. His sonnet cycle, Astrophel and Stella, sparked the sonnet craze of the Elizabethans. Sidney's deep religious feeling and grave demeanor create a psychological depth second only, among the poets of his era, to Shakespeare and reflects a purer and unnarrowed Puritanism of the early 1500s. Sidney's magnificent sonnet cycle chronicles his love for Lady Penelope Devereux, Stella of the title. Astrophel and Stella is part of the Old World Series, a first edition and one of 925 copies printed on hand-made Van Gelder paper.

Ode On Immortality, by William Wordsworth, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1908.
Wordsworth's deep introspection and love of the natural beauty of his Lake Country home form the basis of this ode to this world and the next. Part of the Miscellaneous Series, one of 925 in blue paper wraps with green floral decorations.

Lyrical Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1910.
I prefer Shelley's poems to Byron's in many ways, not the least of which is that one doesn't feel the titanic weight of the poet's ego with Shelley, whereas its inescapable with Byron. These beautiful Lyrics are part of the Lyric Garland Series.

Threnody and Other Lyrics, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1911.
One thinks of Emerson primarily as an essayist and while these poems may not be of the first water, they deserve more than a second glance. Threnody reflects upon his grief after the death of his eldest son of scarlet fever. From the depths of sorrow and suffering the poem is easily within the realm of Whitman's When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd and Wilde's De Profundis. Part of the Miscellaneous Series, one of 925 copies in blue paper wraps with green floral decorations.